Ifstream, how to read next line after facing a specific character

Question

    (example.txt)
    Tommy:16:Male
    Sam:23:Female

I wanted to code in C++ that take a data from the text file using ifstream but not the entire line. For example, the first column represent Name and I just want to take Name data.

Is there a way to split ":" this character, just like Java line.split(":").

scanf might also be what you need, but it is quite oldschool C. — macetw, Sep 03 '16 at 11:10

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 03 '16 at 10:04

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std::ifstream infile("example.txt");

std::string line;
while (std::getline(infile, line))
{
    std::stringstream ss;
    ss.str(line);
    std::string item;
    while (getline(ss, item, ':')) {
        std::cout << item << std::endl;
    }
}

answered Sep 03 '16 at 10:04

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